I started playing around 12:15am, after the decrypt, and continued until 5am. I got through M3. Going stealth, hack, social. Saving Praxis points is torture.

Hacking totally reminds me of The Martix from Shadowrun, which is a good thing.

I don't know how many missions there are, but I think I'll get far more than 30 hours out of the story.

I haven't killed anyone yet and I have got the ghost bonus on every level so far. I changed cover mode to toggle. Its way easier than trying to hold the mouse button down for a minute. FOV to 90. Load times are not bad at all, but I do have a pretty good rig even though its 2 years old. My load times are far faster than I've seen in any videos.

Voice acting is great. Controls are great. You can tell its going to have good replayability. I'll take this as GOTY over Witcher 2, but Batman hasn't come out yet :).

I need to stop reading these reviews. They are making me jones. I'm going to try to sleep for a few hours before midnight so I can play as long as possible when its released. I'm on vacation for the rest of the week :). I've avoided all videos so far. I don't want to know ANYTHING before I play. I know a lot of people didn't like Alpha Protocol. I thought that game rocked. DEHR seems very similar to me.

Dev wrote on Aug 21, 2011, 23:56:You'd think the TF2 items would be for pre-orders through steam... except when I put in my serial key to add in my deus ex pre-order, it said I was going to get the 8 TF2 items on the preload screen.

So like I said, can anyone confirm receiving the TF2 items with a preorder of any type? (such as through steam).

Because I'm going to complain to valve about not getting my promised items.

I did not get the TF2 items. I ordered from GMG. I did not expect to get them because the page clearly states pre-order the game on Steam to get the items. With the new inventory feature on Steam, I can see my friend who pre-ordered on Steam does have the TF2 items.

I'm guessing it really was just an internal communication problem, as in someone told someone else something wrong, and they passed on the incorrect information. But Ubi has put themselves in a position that no one will believe them no matter what the truth is.

I bought the game on Xbox before all this went down. Its too bad they fucked up the PC version, because its a pretty good game. Its not really made for a controller though. I would have loved to have seen it on PC. Maybe in 6 months when they remove the DRM and its on a Steam sale for $5.

isdfwe wrote on Aug 15, 2011, 22:20:y means to travel to new star systems is through highly restricted and well defended warp gates. It is well known that systems closer to the galactic core become richer and richer as well as more scientifically advanced. This has le

So if a game isn't popular, then always on DRM doesn't matter? So it only matters if it affects you and not gamers in general? Where is the nerd rage? I smell selectivity in your arguments.

It's hard for people to rage about something they have no awareness of. It's a pretty simple concept to understand. Most people have no idea what Darkspore is in the first place. Generally speaking when you have some awareness involved then people will react, whether they do it one way or another is based on multiple factors. I smell troll in your posts.

So you have no awareness of always on DRM? That's what I'm talking about. I just used another game as an example. So I'll ask again, are you arguing against always on DRM, or always on DRM in Diablo 3, and you don't really care how if affects other games?

Not one person here said, "I'm not buying that game because it requires an constant connection."

To elaborate on Verno's point, people only say "I'm not buying that game because of X" if they previously intended to buy the game. While there may have been one or two people who mentioned they were, by and large, I didn't see people claiming to have any interest in it at all.

So if a game isn't popular, then always on DRM doesn't matter? So it only matters if it affects you and not gamers in general? Where is the nerd rage? I smell selectivity in your arguments.

I also want to point out the game Darkspore, which I own. I'm not sure what the sales of that game were/are, but it is a single player/multiplayer game that requires a constant connection. I never saw anyone complain about that for that game. Probably because its not Diablo 3. Not one person here said, "I'm not buying that game because it requires an constant connection."

Most people who tried it and said they didn't care for the game, or they bought it, but no complaining about the always on connection.

Because the code that actually runs the game will not be available, it would take the creation and distribution of something like an MMO free server in order to play the game offline, and for a fast paced game with complex mechanics, I doubt you're going to see that pulled off anytime soon.

People reverse engineered most of the functionality of the old battle.net, it's certainly possible albeit time consuming. What's more difficult is going to be figuring out character file formats as Blizzard will almost certainly obfuscate that to hell and back. It'll have to come after the former too.

And they got sued and lost and Blizzard took over their domain, although its allegedly being used in other countries. I don't know why you'd want to waste you time, though, except maybe as an exercise or learning experience. Blizzard WILL shut you down, if they can.

Also, I think this open letter is pretty pretentious. Its not like Mike hasn't been doing this for 20 years. I would say he knows what he is doing, and after all the dust settles, nothing is going to change from all the complaints. This has been planned for a very long time, and they are not going to reverse this decision.

Also, I will once again point out that the number of people complaining are, unfortunately, in the minority. Most of the people who will be buying D3, won't know, or won't care about the always on connection. Most of the people who play Blizzard games are used to this by now anyway, even with the offline mode of SC2.

This is going to be the future of gaming. I don't necessarily like it, but this is where everyone is going to go. Its just a fact. You, as a gamer, may not like it, but it makes business sense in the end. Even with the "lost" sales. Corporations don't live in your reality. They live in red and black.

Also, Bridenbecker already said this had nothing to do with piracy. I'll let you decide if you want to believe that or not.